You don't get it. It requires no special skills or anything. When I go to conferences, there's almost always a day when I forget my badge and get in without anyone asking questions. No need to even hide behind others or anything. They just trust that the people who want to attend will pay the registration.
I've actually got a Sigma 28-300 lens to replace the one that came with my 350D (8 MP actually). So the lens is pretty good, but when you look at the image carefully, you see that there's still a bit of blur between adjacent pixels.
Exactly my thought. I've got a 10MP DSLR and even then I get the impression that the limitation is still the lens. Sure you can do averaging with lots of pixels, but then you can just use fewer, bigger pixels.
The only real comparison we've made with Vorbis and AAC was a 64 kb/s test comparing Opus to Vorbis and HE-AAC (v1). See the results and the analysis. At higher rate, we definitely reach a point where Opus is transparent for everything, but the exact rate depends on the content and the listener.
As for Microsoft, they've actually updated their covenant to something which is nicer than what Skype originally had and (IMO but IANAL) totally acceptable.
We actually wanted to compare Opus and AAC-ELD, but there was just no way to actually get an AAC-ELD implementation. The best we were able to do is to get an AAC-LD implementation from Apple. See this demo page (scroll down) for the comparison we did between AAC-LD and CELT (which is now part of Opus). In the very few modes we had access to, CELT (Opus) was clearly superior to AAC-LD. I've no idea how much better AAC-ELD is.
I remember reading somewhere that AK47 gunfire celebrations could actually be deadly, in part from bullets going down at high speed. It was related to stories about the recent conflict in Libya, so you can probably find it relatively easily.
Yes, I'm also a happy Clementine user. Hopefully some day the Amarok developers will realize they screwed up, and go back. I guess we can say the same of KDE and gnome devs...
I was in the same situation. After trying out almost every desktop environment/WM, I settled on XCFE. It's missing a few features (e.g. some mouse options, which I get back by running gnome-settings-daemon in the background), but it works, it's lightweight, it's reasonably configurable, and it doesn't try to teach me what I should like. In any case, I really hated all the other options I tried (especially KDE4), so I'm sticking with XFCE for now.
I would recommend against using this for bargaining. Someone else suggested asking for a raise *without* mentioning the new job and I think it's OK. But actually saying "give he a raise or I'll go to company X" is likely to be seen as a form of blackmail, especially if your company's currently in a rush to finish a product. Also, I've heard of people using that strategy actually getting a raise... before being laid off as soon as the company was out of its rush.
Even better would be for the owners of less efficient vehicles to pay mode... which is exactly what a tax on gas achieves. It just makes sense. If what you want to reduce is total fuel consumption, then you tax fuel. In that case, tax may actually be the wrong term. The idea would be for the gas price to reflect the total cost of burning it, including the hidden environmental cost. Besides, I'm not actually sure that increasing the taxes on gas would really increase the final price by much (except maybe in the states). The current high prices are mostly dictated by the supply-demand balance. If you increase taxes, you decrease the demand, which brings the price down.
I'm not an astrophysicist, but I can't really see how cases 1 and 3 could result in a stable orbit. It seems to me like both of those would result in a collision with one of the stars sooner rather than later. The only stable orbit I can see is for the planet to be much further from the stars than the distance between the stars. I assume that would also mean too cold unless the stars are very bright, in which case most of the light would be in the ultraviolet range, which has its own set of problems.
No, it's "open codec designed for voip is slightly better for *music* than closed codec designed for music". In other words, this test showed Opus (slightly) beating HE-AAC at what HE-AAC does best. Testing on a voip scenario would have been pointless because of the huge delay HE-AAC has.
If we were talking about a 96 kb/s test, I'd agree with you. But at 64 kb/s, HE-AAC sounds much better than AAC-LC. The guys who organized this test picked the best AAC implementation they could find at the rate the test was run at.
What makes you say that? If you find a real issue, please raise it -- either on the mailing list: codec@ietf.org, or to me privately (jmvalin@jmvalin.ca). Skype is on the good side on this one. The technology they have contributed is very useful and they're open about resolving any licensing issue.
There are "custom modes" that can do that. With those you can go as low as 2.5 ms. The only down side is that you can't switch frame size dynamically when you use these custom modes.
To be exact, there *are* patents, but they will be available without fee in a way that is compatible with FOSS licences such as the GPL. The main idea behind these patents is that your license terminates if you sue someone by claiming Opus infringes your patents. Almost like a copyleft, but for patents (of course the details are different because copyright != patent).
Yes, 5 to 22.5 ms is the algorithmic delay of the codec. By comparison, codecs like AAC/MP3/Vorbis have more than 100 ms algorithmic delay (you need to give the encoder side more than 100 ms of audio before the decoder side gives you any audio back).
Thanks for reminding me. I think I'll try Xfce when I upgrade my distro (and get gnome2 replaced by gnome3). From experience with gnome and kde, it always takes them ~2 years to get a new release right and kde4 is probably still a bit too new. I still don't understand this idea that "rewriting the code with about half the features is a good thing".
So the Earth's atmosphere contains about 4*10^19 kg of Nitrogen (surface of the earth * 100 kPa/g * 80%). That's a *lot* of mass. A 10 km asteroid (like the one that could have wiped the dinosaurs) is maybe 10^12 kg. So it would take more than 10 *millions* of those to provide the Earth with its current atmosphere -- assuming these asteroids were pure frozen nitrogen.
Another thing I don't quite understand is why the nitrogen would have to come from somewhere else. As far as I know, stars produce plenty of it (CNO cycle and all), so if we have carbon and Oxygen, why not nitrogen as well. Am I missing anything?
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You don't get it. It requires no special skills or anything. When I go to conferences, there's almost always a day when I forget my badge and get in without anyone asking questions. No need to even hide behind others or anything. They just trust that the people who want to attend will pay the registration.
I've actually got a Sigma 28-300 lens to replace the one that came with my 350D (8 MP actually). So the lens is pretty good, but when you look at the image carefully, you see that there's still a bit of blur between adjacent pixels.
Exactly my thought. I've got a 10MP DSLR and even then I get the impression that the limitation is still the lens. Sure you can do averaging with lots of pixels, but then you can just use fewer, bigger pixels.
"We're sorry, the food you are trying to cook is not compatible with this stove. Please obtain compatible food from your local Apple supermarket."
The only real comparison we've made with Vorbis and AAC was a 64 kb/s test comparing Opus to Vorbis and HE-AAC (v1). See the results and the analysis. At higher rate, we definitely reach a point where Opus is transparent for everything, but the exact rate depends on the content and the listener.
As for Microsoft, they've actually updated their covenant to something which is nicer than what Skype originally had and (IMO but IANAL) totally acceptable.
We actually wanted to compare Opus and AAC-ELD, but there was just no way to actually get an AAC-ELD implementation. The best we were able to do is to get an AAC-LD implementation from Apple. See this demo page (scroll down) for the comparison we did between AAC-LD and CELT (which is now part of Opus). In the very few modes we had access to, CELT (Opus) was clearly superior to AAC-LD. I've no idea how much better AAC-ELD is.
I remember reading somewhere that AK47 gunfire celebrations could actually be deadly, in part from bullets going down at high speed. It was related to stories about the recent conflict in Libya, so you can probably find it relatively easily.
Yes, I'm also a happy Clementine user. Hopefully some day the Amarok developers will realize they screwed up, and go back. I guess we can say the same of KDE and gnome devs...
And how long do you think it'll be before Iran makes a deal with China?
Considering a spherical horse in simple harmonic motion...
I was in the same situation. After trying out almost every desktop environment/WM, I settled on XCFE. It's missing a few features (e.g. some mouse options, which I get back by running gnome-settings-daemon in the background), but it works, it's lightweight, it's reasonably configurable, and it doesn't try to teach me what I should like. In any case, I really hated all the other options I tried (especially KDE4), so I'm sticking with XFCE for now.
I would recommend against using this for bargaining. Someone else suggested asking for a raise *without* mentioning the new job and I think it's OK. But actually saying "give he a raise or I'll go to company X" is likely to be seen as a form of blackmail, especially if your company's currently in a rush to finish a product. Also, I've heard of people using that strategy actually getting a raise... before being laid off as soon as the company was out of its rush.
Even better would be for the owners of less efficient vehicles to pay mode... which is exactly what a tax on gas achieves. It just makes sense. If what you want to reduce is total fuel consumption, then you tax fuel. In that case, tax may actually be the wrong term. The idea would be for the gas price to reflect the total cost of burning it, including the hidden environmental cost. Besides, I'm not actually sure that increasing the taxes on gas would really increase the final price by much (except maybe in the states). The current high prices are mostly dictated by the supply-demand balance. If you increase taxes, you decrease the demand, which brings the price down.
I'm not an astrophysicist, but I can't really see how cases 1 and 3 could result in a stable orbit. It seems to me like both of those would result in a collision with one of the stars sooner rather than later. The only stable orbit I can see is for the planet to be much further from the stars than the distance between the stars. I assume that would also mean too cold unless the stars are very bright, in which case most of the light would be in the ultraviolet range, which has its own set of problems.
No, it's "open codec designed for voip is slightly better for *music* than closed codec designed for music". In other words, this test showed Opus (slightly) beating HE-AAC at what HE-AAC does best. Testing on a voip scenario would have been pointless because of the huge delay HE-AAC has.
If we were talking about a 96 kb/s test, I'd agree with you. But at 64 kb/s, HE-AAC sounds much better than AAC-LC. The guys who organized this test picked the best AAC implementation they could find at the rate the test was run at.
What makes you say that? If you find a real issue, please raise it -- either on the mailing list: codec@ietf.org, or to me privately (jmvalin@jmvalin.ca). Skype is on the good side on this one. The technology they have contributed is very useful and they're open about resolving any licensing issue.
There are "custom modes" that can do that. With those you can go as low as 2.5 ms. The only down side is that you can't switch frame size dynamically when you use these custom modes.
This is the license for the "old" SILK codec. The patent licenses for Opus has nothing to do with that. Please read them:
Xiph.Org IPR statement: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1524/
Broadcom IPR statement: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1526/
Skype IPR statement: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1525/
To be exact, there *are* patents, but they will be available without fee in a way that is compatible with FOSS licences such as the GPL. The main idea behind these patents is that your license terminates if you sue someone by claiming Opus infringes your patents. Almost like a copyleft, but for patents (of course the details are different because copyright != patent).
Yes, 5 to 22.5 ms is the algorithmic delay of the codec. By comparison, codecs like AAC/MP3/Vorbis have more than 100 ms algorithmic delay (you need to give the encoder side more than 100 ms of audio before the decoder side gives you any audio back).
Thanks for reminding me. I think I'll try Xfce when I upgrade my distro (and get gnome2 replaced by gnome3). From experience with gnome and kde, it always takes them ~2 years to get a new release right and kde4 is probably still a bit too new. I still don't understand this idea that "rewriting the code with about half the features is a good thing".
I can't wait to see the speed of a java VM implemented in Javascript running a PDP-1 emulator.
So the Earth's atmosphere contains about 4*10^19 kg of Nitrogen (surface of the earth * 100 kPa/g * 80%). That's a *lot* of mass. A 10 km asteroid (like the one that could have wiped the dinosaurs) is maybe 10^12 kg. So it would take more than 10 *millions* of those to provide the Earth with its current atmosphere -- assuming these asteroids were pure frozen nitrogen.
Another thing I don't quite understand is why the nitrogen would have to come from somewhere else. As far as I know, stars produce plenty of it (CNO cycle and all), so if we have carbon and Oxygen, why not nitrogen as well. Am I missing anything?
I don't swear at the computer. I swear at the idiot who wrote the [OS,application] that just crashed or misbehaved... unless it's me.